Usually means: Illumination from behind the subject.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. backlighting: Merriam-Webster
  2. backlighting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backlighting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Backlighting, backlighting: Wordnik
  5. backlighting: Wiktionary
  6. backlighting: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. backlighting: Dictionary.com
  8. Backlighting (lighting design): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. backlighting: FreeDictionary.org
  10. backlighting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. backlighting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Backlighting: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. backlighting: Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Backlighting: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  2. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (backlighting)

noun:  The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.

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